Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

These scars that we have... they don't go away. They only fade with time, but they're still hauntingly there.

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

The NFL, sadly, has a fatal environmental problem: It kills its workers.

What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.

We don't choose what's going to wake us up.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.

I never ever took my career seriously.

Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.

I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.